Out of the Cubicle onto the Open Road
The RV is for sale and we are plotting our return to Bend, so I have finally had a chance to clean up a few posts that have been in the can for far too long. This is one: As I have said before, we lived in Bend, OR before we left on this adventure [...]
Sometime you find greatness through hard work, research and perseverance, and other times you just plain trip over it. Our journey brought us to Austin, TX and I found (512) Brewing Company out of sheer luck. While we were in Austin, we found ourselves exactly eight months into our one-year trip around the US, with [...]
In mid-March, we crossed into New Mexico from West Texas and found ourselves in a land more hospitable to beer lovers. While we had some great experiences with Texas breweries, their beer laws were a little confounding. We spent a warm Sunday touring a National Park and museum, and felt that the best way to spend [...]
Our travels have taken us around second base (Florida), so we have made the turn and are heading for home. I made a couple of great visits to Cigar City Brewing in Tampa and Swamp Head in Gainesville, so I was encouraged when I stopped by the Pensacola Bay Brewery in Florida’s panhandle. While the previous breweries set the bar high, [...]
EDIT 4/2/2013: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN BACK IN FEBRUARY 2012 AND WAS BASED ON OUR TRAVELS AND EXPERIENCES FILLING OUR COLLECTION OF GROWLERS. WHILE IT IS ACCURATE IN THAT IT IS BASED ON OUR EFFORTS AT THAT TIME, THERE HAVE BEEN CHANGES IN LAWS SINCE THEN. SOMEONE SHOULD PRODUCE AN ARTICLE SHOWING CURRENT STATE LAWS [...]
The Traveling Growler is back and it feels good! For the second time in two weeks, I have been able to visit a brewery and fill a growler, and this weeks visit was a good stop! While sampling a flight at Cigar City, I asked them a question that has become a standard one at all [...]
The Traveling Growler has been stuck in the closet for almost two months, but it is back in action. Sort of. The Hydroflask growler has not seen a lot of action due to our itinerary and state laws governing the use of growlers, but we resumed our brewery visits on the Gulf Coast of Florida [...]
NOTE: I have had this post in the can for a while, but am just getting around to publishing it. A nasty storm chased us south from Norfolk, VA down toward the outer banks of North Carolina. We spent a cold night along the Currituck Sound hoping that the temperature would be better by the [...]
I am officially a Beermaster and have the certificate to prove it, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch. I did not get this honor through years of school or marathon beer sampling sessions. I just went to the Anheuser-Busch brewery on Jacksonville, paid them money and took a two-hour, in-depth tour of the plant. We arrived in Florida [...]
My efforts to fill my Hydroflask growler hit a bump a couple months back. There were no problems, just roadblocks including state laws, travel routes, timing and big cities. But that does not mean we were not sampling local products. Below are summaries of places we did visit and/or beers we sampled: [...]
